Re: initrd explosion?

On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 04:55 -0800, Andrew Farris wrote:
> Gary Thomas wrote:
> > What's happened to the initrd image in rawhide?
[snip]
> > Everything else seems in line, it's just initrd that seems
> > a bit excessive. n.b. this system runs on my big boxes, but fails
> > to even start on my 192MB ThinkPad :-(
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=431305
>
> That initrd is probably built from the kernel compiles that caused 2.6.24-9 to
> be a 200mb kernel. Its being looked into, see threads on -devel.
Yep, that's exactly it. In general, the installer images are built
entirely of the packages which exist in a given tree
Jeremy